To be conservative at 20 is heartless and to be a liberal at 60 is plain idiocy.

Perfecting and selling your writing is a lifelong task. If you are a persistent writer, you can expect your abilities to improve with time. Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.

It is a good thing to stand away from the canvas from time to time and take a full view of the picture.

Air superiority is the ultimate expression of military power.

You never can tell whether bad luck may not after all turn out to be good luck.

Churchill says the Government had to choose between war and shame. They chose shame. They will get war, too.

No one can understand history without continually relating the long periods which are constantly mentioned to the experiences of our own short lives.